Monster - Recommendations

• TV (11 eps)
• 2015

For most people, finding a dead body on their vacation would mean the vacation is over. However, for Souhei Saikawa, a professor of architecture, and his student Moe Nishinosono, a math prodigy, it's a different kind of challenge. Genius programmer Shiki Magata, one of Souhei's idols, is inexplicably murdered inside the sealed research lab she disappeared to after being found innocent of her parents' murder. As Souhei and Moe take the first steps into a deadly new world, they must untangle the complex web of events and clues leading up to the murder. With danger creeping up around them, this may be the last mystery this pair of human anomalies attempts to solve in THE PERFECT INSIDER!

• TV (11 eps)
• 2017

Ichirou Inuyashiki is a compassionate man who always tries to help others, but his family doesn't appreciate him, and at 58 years old, Ichirou is distraught to learn that he's dying of cancer. In the same city lives Hiro Shishigami, a high-schooler whose personality is quite the opposite. He is cherished by his family, but Hiro is dissatisfied with life and reserves his limited compassion for the very few people he cares about. One night, an alien light hits the earth and both people are killed. They are restored by the extraterrestrials and given awesome new abilities, but how they each use their new powers are vastly different...

• TV (24 eps)
• 2018

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Iraq has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...

• TV (13 eps)
• 2020

The power to infiltrate minds and manipulate memories. Those who have it are feared, hated and referred to as "pets". Hiroki and Tsukasa both possess the power. It would have consumed their fragile hearts, were it not for the special bond they share. But their wish to be together is callously exploited by underground organization "the Company". What consequences will distorting their bond have?

• TV (12 eps)
• 2006

Rokuro Okajima is a small-time salaryman who is carrying documents for his company, when the ship he's traveling on is attacked by pirates. Kidnapped, he discovers to his dismay that his employers' main concern is to ensure the documents don't get into the wrong hands, even if it means sending the carrier to the bottom of the sea. Now, with his former life ruined and his kidnappers seeming comparatively friendly, "Rock" decides to join their merry band of mercenaries, and sets out with a new career to the shadier corners of the South China Sea.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2023

Tosu Tetsuo is a 47-year-old humble businessman who loves his family. He finds out that Reika, his daughter in college, has been physically abused by her boyfriend, Matori Nobuto, and acts to protect her, which leads to a terrible, irreparable situation.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2023

Newly adopted orphan Hitori Sonoyama appears to be the perfect child: Sweet, loving, and adored by his new parents. But the truth is "Hitori" is not real; he's a role played by identical twin brothers Migi and Dali. Determined to find a way back to the place of their birth to avenge their mother's death, they've wormed their way into the hearts of an aging couple who live there by pretending to be one seemingly angelic child. But upon their arrival, they'll need to investigate the village and its residents to figure out who the murderer actually is, all while doing whatever difficult, painful, or bizarre things it takes to uncover the truth and make sure no one discovers their secret in the process.